Basic Income & You

How does basic income help employed people? The issues: Basic income is relevant to the issues faced by employees in many different ways. This is a selection of the relevant issues employees face. Many employees have ‘precarious’ work – short contracts, temporary jobs, seasonal employment or fewer hours than they Read more

How does basic income help with being unemployed? The issues: Under the current welfare system people can be forced into work that they find morally or socially unacceptable Under the current system, people can be worse off taking up paid work than remaining on benefits, due to unemployment and poverty Read more

How does basic income support entrepreneurship and self-employment? The issues: Society benefits from entrepreneurship, yet budding entrepreneurs and people considering self employment face many challenges in making their venture a success. These challenges include: Accessing credit A high exposure to risk with the possibility of losing everything, becoming bankrupt and Read more

How does basic income respond to the issues facing young people? The Issues: Young people find themselves under tremendous pressure from an early age to make life choices. Unless their families are well-off financially, they can be discouraged from exploring different career paths. Faced with the stark choice between full-time Read more

How does basic income support caring? The issues: We all need care from others, particularly when we are young, ill or infirm We are all potential carers – as parents, children, spouses, and other relatives; as partners, friends, neighbours, and lovers; as workmates and professional care-givers…indeed, in all our social Read more

How does basic income support farmers? The issues: Farming, as a business, takes many forms, including family farms, privately owned small-scale growing, membership-based Community Supported Farms (generally known as CSAs), worker-owned cooperatives, and large-scale farms owned by consortiums. Yet the trend in national and EU policy is to prioritise agribusiness Read more

How does basic income support artistic and creative work? The issues: Artistic and creative work adds economic value to society, but it is often valued only for its potential contribution to economic growth. Artistic and creative work is also intrinsically valuable, but this receives little recognition. There is also a Read more